The Land Liberation Celebration Was Lit
We had a great time at the Land Liberation Celebration on Juneteenth weekend. There was sun, freshly pressed juice, and a free store. The music was a mood and good times were had by all.
At the party we coalesced around the first potential vision for Esther's and shared ideas for what the future could look like. We gave away collard green seeds--chosen for their hardiness and resilience, like us--for attendees to grow with us and our collective vision.
Want to see what else you missed?
The in-person event also had an online component, which you can find here. Password is juneteenth. Take a look around and add your ideas to our collective vision!
We raised $17,000 additional dollars for land liberation work in the following weeks; our funding gap gets smaller with each passing day. Nevertheless, there's still a gap.
Join us and more than 451 others like yourself to make a difference in West Oakland. We seek investors to fund the acquisitions, community owners to steward the coop, donations to fund the administrative work, champions to spread the word and staff to work with us. We encourage you to read the offering circular before making a decision to invest. There are so many ways to get involved in the Esther's Orbit Room Cultural Revival Project. How will you get in?
Good Reads & Other Media
PODCAST | Jaisal Noor on Worker Co-Ops | This pod talks about the complications co-ops pose to corporate media’s economic storyline with Jaisal Noor, senior reporter at the Real News Network. Also: The Keystone XL pipeline has evidently just been killed; Enbridge’s Line 3 is, as we speak, the center of a huge gathering in Minnesota—the Treaty People Gathering—to call attention to the myriad harms it likewise poses to people and to the environment.
ARTICLE | You Can Have Billionaires or You Can Have Democracy | The billionaire class isn’t just a group of people who happen to be superrich. It’s a dynastic oligarchy with a single overriding objective: controlling the government to protect its inherited wealth.
SHOW | High on the Hog | Black food is American food. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving throughlines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries.
ARTICLE | American apartheid and the wealth gap: How white supremacy drives inequality | America's grotesque economic inequality hurts everyone. But can we at least quit pretending it's race-neutral?.
Upcoming Events
Orientation with EB PREC | Typically we host orientation twice a month, but this month we're
pointing you to our orientation recording on the website. Everyone needs a break and this month our facilitator is taking one. How's that for #healpeoplepower?
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